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CANADIAN WILD-FLOWERS.— III. 



Buttercup Family — (Continued). 



WE stated in the December number that some of the 

 plants of this family climb by their leaf-stalks. Such 

 are some of the members of the clematis tribe. Two of these 

 are to be found growing wild in Canada, of which 

 the Clematis verticillaris is the most showy. Its 

 ^ flowers are about three inches across, composed 

 of four bluish-purple sepals, appearing in May. 

 It is not very common ; to be found usually in 

 rocky woods or ravines, and in mountainous parts 

 of the country, especially north-westward. Some 

 of the outer filaments of the stamens are usually 

 enlarged, gradually passing into small spatula- 

 shaped petals. The leaves are trifoliate ; that is, 

 divided into three leaflets or little leaves ; the 

 leaf-stalks are slender, and the leaflets slightly 

 heart-shaped. The seeds are ornamented with 

 feathery tails, so that the plant is not only showy when in bloom, but also in the 

 autumn when covered with these feathery appendages of the seeds. 



The other climbing clematis is quite common, it is Clematis Virginiana, 

 usually known by the name of Virgin's Bower. It will often be found growing 

 on the banks of streams, climbing over small trees and shrubs. Its leaves are 

 also compound, being formed of three ovate acute leaflets, which are lobed, and 

 somewhat heart-shaped at the base. The flowers are borne in panicled clusters, 

 differing in this from the one above described, the flowers of which are borne 

 singly upon the flower-stalk. There are no petals, but the sepals are thin and 

 white ; and the seeds are also furnished with feathery tails. Both of these can 

 be easily grown and trained over a trellis, veranda, or door porch, making pretty 

 ornaments wherever climbing plants are wanted. 



In British Columbia will be found other varieties of clematis, known to 

 botanists as C. ligusticifolia (Nuttall), and C. Douglasii (Hooker). 



ANEMONE, ANEMONE TRIBE. 



This tribe is represented by three genera in Canada, if the genus Hepatica 

 of Dillenius is to be retained as distinct from the genus Anemone of Linnaeus. 

 These are anemone, hepatica and thalictrum. The plants of this tribe produce 



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